Bruiser Gragas Build

ARAM Build Guide for champion Gragas and build Bruiser.

Bruiser Gragas build with runes and items. Bruiser Gragas guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Bruiser Gragas build in League of Legends Patch 14.20!

Updated: 2024-05-22 ()

TLDR

Starting items
Tunneler should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Gragas ability Body Slam should be leveled first.
E
Gragas ability Drunken Rage should be leveled second.
W
Gragas ability Barrel Roll should be leveled third.
Q
Final items
Plated Steelcaps should be final item in your build.
Sundered Sky should be final item in your build.
Force of Nature should be final item in your build.
Death's Dance should be final item in your build.
Spirit Visage should be final item in your build.
Overlord's Bloodmail should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Grasp of the Undying from Resolve tree.
Minor rune Precision.
Summoner spells
Pick Mark as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Bruiser Gragas Runes

Resolve
Resolve major tree Grasp of the Undying rune.
Resolve major tree Aftershock rune.
Resolve major tree Guardian rune.
Resolve major tree Demolish rune.
Resolve major tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve major tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve major tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve major tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve major tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve major tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve major tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve major tree Unflinching rune.
Precision
Precision minor tree Absorb Life rune.
Precision minor tree Triumph rune.
Precision minor tree Presence of Mind rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Alacrity rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Haste rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Bloodline rune.
Precision minor tree Coup de Grace rune.
Precision minor tree Cut Down rune.
Precision minor tree Last Stand rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

How it works

Bruiser Build specific
  1. You play as Gragas Bruiser.
  2. Your build is survivability oriented. With some damage and tons of HP and defense.
  3. You auto attack a lot.

How to play

Bruiser Build specific
  1. As Gragas playing Bruiser build - you need ot adapt to an enemy team and to the game! Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR. Are they heavy on AD? Buy Armor. You need some damage? Well buy that.
  2. Remember to consume your Grasp of the Undying procs!

Tips and Tricks

General
  1. You can Body Slam (E), then Flash to do cool combo and catch unsuspecting enemies!
  2. You can Body Slam (E), then Flash forward, backward or even sideways, and you will still hit the enemy at the end of animation.
Riot
  1. The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
  2. Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
  3. Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.

Skill Order

  • Gragas [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Barrel Roll
  • Gragas [object Object] ability.
    W
    Drunken Rage
  • Gragas [object Object] ability.
    E
    Body Slam
  • Gragas [object Object] ability.
    R
    Explosive Cask

Items

Starting items
Tunneler item.
Starting items vs poke
Guardian's Horn item.
Ruby Crystal item.
Boots
Mercury's Treads item.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Plated Steelcaps item.
Good damage items
Titanic Hydra item.
Experimental Hexplate item.
Black Cleaver item.
Sundered Sky item.
Stridebreaker item.
Bruiser defensive items
Sterak's Gage item.
Death's Dance item.
Overlord's Bloodmail item.
Situational damage items
Blade of The Ruined King item.
Wit's End item.
Good tank items
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Good MR items
Spirit Visage item.
Abyssal Mask item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Force of Nature item.
Hollow Radiance item.
Good Armor items
Frozen Heart item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
Randuin's Omen item.
Dead Man's Plate item.
Iceborn Gauntlet item.
Unending Despair item.
Thornmail item.
Situational items
Zeke's Convergence item.
Trailblazer item.
Knight's Vow item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Elixir of Sorcery item.
Example final build
Plated Steelcaps item.
Sundered Sky item.
Force of Nature item.
Death's Dance item.
Spirit Visage item.
Overlord's Bloodmail item.